October 27th, 2015 by Joseph Salisbury

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Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs

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http://kernel.ubuntu.com/reports/kt-meeting.txt

Status: Xenial Development Kernel

Our Xenial kernel is open for development. The repo’s have been opened
in LP:
git://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/xenial
git://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+git/xenial
git://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux-signed/+git/xenial
Our Xenial master branch is still tracking Wily’s v4.2 based kernel.
However, Xenial master-next is currently rebased to v4.3-rc7.
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October 6th, 2015 by Joseph Salisbury

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Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs

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http://kernel.ubuntu.com/reports/kt-meeting.txt

Status: Wily Development Kernel

We are approaching Wily Kernel Freeze this Thurs Oct 8, ~2 days away!
If there are any patches which need to land for 15.10, please get them
submitted immediately. Following the Kernel Freeze deadline, all
patches are subject to our SRU policy and could miss the release.
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http://kernel.ubuntu.com/reports/kernel-cves.html

Status for the main kernels, until today:

Precise – Kernel Prep

Trusty – Kernel Prep

lts-Utopic – Kernel Prep

Vivid – Kernel Prep

Current opened tracking bugs details:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/sru/kernel-sru-workflow.html
For SRUs, SRU report is a good source of information:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/sru/sru-report.html

Schedule:

cycle: 27-Sep through 17-Oct
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25-Sep Last day for kernel commits for this cycle
27-Sep – 03-Oct Kernel prep week.
04-Oct – 10-Oct Bug verification & Regression testing.
11-Oct – 17-Oct Regression testing & Release to -updates.
Note: We have gotten off to a late start on this cycle due to some patches
that came in at the last minute. We intend to stick to the schedule
though that may change as we get farther along.

September 29th, 2015 by Joseph Salisbury

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http://kernel.ubuntu.com/reports/kt-meeting.txt

Status: Wily Development Kernel

Our Wily kernel remains based on stable v4.2.1 and we will continue to
track 4.2 for the remainder of the 15.10 cycle. As a reminder, we are
approaching Wily Kernel Freeze on Oct 8, ~1 week away. If there are any patches which need to land for 15.10, please get them submitted soon.
Following the Kernel Freeze deadline, all patches are subject to our SRU policy.
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September 22nd, 2015 by Joseph Salisbury

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http://kernel.ubuntu.com/reports/kt-meeting.txt

Status: Wily Development Kernel

Our Wily kernel has been rebased to stable v4.2.1 and uploaded to
wily-proposed, ie 4.2.0-11.13. We will continue to track 4.2 for
the remainder of the 15.10 cycle. As a reminder, we are approaching
Wily Kernel Freeze on Oct 8, ~2 weeks away. If there are any patches
which need to land for 15.10, please get them submitted soon. Following
the Kernel Freeze deadline, all patches are subject to our SRU policy.
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September 15th, 2015 by Joseph Salisbury

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http://kernel.ubuntu.com/reports/kt-meeting.txt

Status: Wily Development Kernel

Our Wily kernel remains based on 4.2 final and is available in the
archive, ie. 4.2.0-7.7. We will continue to track 4.2 for
the remainder of the 15.10 cycle. As a reminder, we are approaching
Wily Kernel Freeze on Oct 8, ~3 weeks away. If there are any patches
which need to land for 15.10, please get them submitted soon. Following
the Kernel Freeze deadline, all patches are subject to our SRU policy.
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September 8th, 2015 by Joseph Salisbury

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Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs

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http://kernel.ubuntu.com/reports/kt-meeting.txt
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Status: Wily Development Kernel

We have rebased our Wily master branch to a 4.2 based kernel and have
upoaded to the archive, ie 4.2.0-7.7. We will continue to track 4.2 for
the remainder of the 15.10 cycle.
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August 25th, 2015 by Joseph Salisbury

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Status: CVE’s

The current CVE status can be reviewed at the following link:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/reports/kernel-cves.html

Status: Wily Development Kernel

We have rebased our Wily master-next branch to the latest upstream
v4.2-rc8 and uploaded to our ~canonical-kernel-team PPA. The fglrx DKMS
package is still failing to build with this latest kernel. We are
actively investigating to get this resolved.
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August 12th, 2015 by Joseph Salisbury

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Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs

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http://kernel.ubuntu.com/reports/kt-meeting.txt

Status: Wily Development Kernel

We have rebased our Wily master-next branch to the latest upstream
v4.2-rc6 and uploaded to our ~canonical-kernel-team PPA. We are
still fixing up DKMS packages before we proceed uploading to the
archive.
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